Here's how Red Hat can help IBM in the cloud and beyond

This agreement could help IBM, which sells traditional data center hardware, improve its position among companies that still operate applications in their own facilities.

By booking the public cloud spend, "the remaining 90 percent of data centers are still going to HP, IBM, Dell, and Cisco," said Dharmesh Thakker, a partner in Battery Ventures, which is investing in startups. up of software and infrastructure. CNBC in an interview. "IBM hopes that thanks to an essential badet in the mix, it will be able to present itself as the best of the pack."

The major issue for IBM in the last mega agreement is huge. Many major technology acquisitions have failed, including the $ 25 billion acquisition of Compaq by Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft's $ 7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's Devices and Services division and the $ 12.5 billion contract signed by Google with Motorola Mobility.

According to badysts Cantor Fitzgerald in a report released Monday. , "the success of the operation will depend on its execution on the side of cross selling / integration".

– Ari Levy of CNBC contributed to this report.

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